Following the Industrial Revolution, schools adopted a more regimented model focused on rote and routine, and added a more specialized curriculum designed to meet the insatiable labor needs of our mills and factories.

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Time Warner Cable is staffing call centers with experts who have specialized training designed to cut down on the number of disconnects, and customers have greater flexibility in choosing how to connect with customer service.

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Specialized equipment must be designed, built and tested, compressing operations that normally last weeks or months into days or even hours.

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There are indications that the specialized repayment programs, designed to make loans cheaper for low earners and those employed by the government or nonprofits, are undersubscribed because of red tape and a lack of publicity.

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The Turbo frame was designed by the Specialized team from scratch to be as sexy as it is strong.

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These programs generally appear to be already subject to their own specialized underwriting criteria, and they are designed to help consumers refinance into a more affordable home loan.

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Traditional practitioners of different regions of the world have been heard to present their experience and results and 100 specialized research institutes worldwide were requested to fill out a questionnaire designed to collect information.

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The era of "information appliances" - electronic gizmos designed to tap into the Internet, often for specialized transactions - is approaching, and with it the end of the PC as the primary tool for online access.

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